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Current NHS consultant posts held

Consultant Urological and Robotic Surgeon Clinical Lead
Glan Clwyd Hospital, Rhyl

Honorary Senior Lecturer
Bangor University

Honorary Lecturer
Cardiff University Medical School

Honorary Clinical Lecturer (Medicine)
Swansea University Medical School

Research interests

An evaluation of modified transperineal template-guided saturation biopsy of prostate in the diagnosis of prostate cancer - Doctoral Thesis, University of Liverpool 2014

Awards received

1) Best Poster Prize –Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh 2016

2. Norman Gibbon Travel Scholarship 2016

3. The Mary Duguid Prize for best paper, 2009.

4. Norman Gibbon Prize for best research paper 2009

5. Obstetrics and Gynaecology Scholarship Prize - University of Ibadan, 2001.

6. The Professor Famewo prize in Anaesthesia (3rd) University of Ibadan, 2001.

Publications

1) Ekwueme KC, McCarthy E, Healey C, Ellis A and Rooney PS; A Novel Frameshift Mutation in the APC gene at Exon 15 in Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) with Desmoid Tumour; Scand J Gastroenterol. 2007 Jun;42(6):788-90

2) Ekwueme KC and Parr NJ: Infected Urachal cyst in an adult; a case report and review of literature, Cases J. 2009 Jun 25; 2:6422

3) Ekwueme KC, Zakhour HD and Parr NJ; Extramammary Paget’s disease of the penis: a case report and review of literature; J Med case reports. 2009 Jan 6; 3:4.

4) Ekwueme KC, West MA, Rooney PS; Emergency first presentation of colorectal cancer following air travel: a case series; JRSM Short Rep. 2011 May;2(5):36

5) Irwin P, Somov P, Ekwueme K; Patient Reported Outcomes of abobotulinumtoxin A injection treatment for idiopathic detrusor overactivity: a pragmatic approach to management in secondary care; Journal of Clinical Urology 01/2013; 6(1):59-63.

6) Ekwueme K, Simpson H, Zakhour H, Parr NJ; Transperineal template-guided saturation biopsy using a modified technique: outcome of 270 cases requiring repeat prostate biopsy; BJU Int. 2013 Jun;111(8): E365-73

7) Sarkar D, Ekwueme K, Parr N; Patient-Reported Experience of Modified Transperineal Template Guided Saturation Biopsy Under General Anaesthesia and without Prophylactic Catheterisation; Urol Int. 2016;96(4):479-83

8) Yogeswaran C, Srinivasan V and Ekwueme K; Mullerian duct cyst treated with template-guided transperineal aspiration: a case report and review of the literature; JRSM Open. 2018 Feb 19;9(2)